Apps Gone Free Roundup: Drop The Chicken, Zombie Samurai and more

The weekend’s upon us and a number of App Store freebies are just waiting for a new home on your iDevice. Drop The Chicken, a popular iOS puzzle game clearly inspired by Cut the Rope (though it is addictive in its own right) is now free for a limited time. Also free is Alawar’s Zombie Samurai, a castle defense type game that incorporates Fruit Ninja’s swipe-to-slice mechanics. And if you’ve been planning on spending less time on the couch and more time in the gym, 6 Pack Promise could motivate you into working out those once rock-hard abs. Be sure to check out the rest of the roundup after the break!

Drop The Chicken is a fun filled, addictive and challenging puzzle game. Our hero ‘Chuck The Chicken’, after an exceptional career as a circus acrobat, shot himself out of a canon and escaped into a nearby farm.

★★ YOUR MISSION ★★ Your mission is to help Chuck get to each nest while eating all the bugs along the way. Drag the acrobatic tools into place and then click the switch and watch Chuck bounce, slide and float around the levels.

Use balloons, fans, conveyors, mouse holes, elastic bands, chick magnets and springs in your effort to get all the bugs! Think before you drop and be sure to avoid the bombs, saws and other obstacles.

They came from within. They are missing from their graves. They are coming to get you! Are you prepared? Extremely evil, absolutely terrifying, and incredibly addictive arcade action fun! Zombie Samurai is your chance to see exactly how long you would survive when the Zombie Apocalypse becomes a reality.

Some people never rest in peace. When the moon turns red, the dead shall rise and walk the earth – searching for fresh brainzzz! Place strategic defenses around the dojo to protect yourself, and use your fingers as katanas to hack and slash endless waves of hungry zombies. With over 15 types of the living dead that mercilessly attack your dojo in different ways, be it by air or by land, the complexity of each and every level and different game mode steadily increases. There is only one way to survive – kill’em all and put them in their grave…..permanently!

Take the King’s challenge! Save the wonderful land of countless islands from the merciless forces of nature. Construct and upgrade homes and buildings for the island citizens and become the chief city planner of marvelous Islandshire. Think your way to triumph in this challenging and mesmerizing game of pirates, treasure and hot-air balloon adventures!

ENJOY THESE FEATURES: – Unique blend of time management and strategy – 9 delightful islands to rebuild – Great variety of homes and buildings to construct – 63 challenging levels

Fully HD for iPhone AND iPad: “Exitium: Saviors of Vardonia” is by far the biggest and most detailed game of its class on iOS!

Vardonia is a land in turmoil. Two rival kingdoms are at war, Arkan and Abylon. Wherever you allegiance may lie, all is not as it seems, as various plots unfold, revealing hidden agendas, and old, untameable gods and vicious monsters start to run amok.

A grand tale of intrigue, betrayal and redemption; discovery, sacrifice and glory, interlaced with fierce battles and challenging quests. Can YOU save the land of Vardonia?

In Jelly Wars your objective is to destroy your opponent either by shooting exploding jelly shots at them or the bar below them causing the bar to fall. Aim carefully! The closer you shoot, the more energy you take from your opponent. You can change your position by jumping or if your opponent is somewhere you can’t reach, you can shoot sticky green jelly shots to the bars.

Alien March is an action space themed sideway runner game. In Alien March, you play as a human astronaut. You travel from one planet to another. After you land on a planet your goal is to run forward and jump from one platform to another. Our fearless hero is fighting hordes of aliens.

A league of hyper-intelligent fish is plotting our destruction from their secret lair at the bottom of the sea. You are the leader of a small band of bears fighting for the survival of all land dwellers. In this epic battle that pits bear against fish, do you have what it takes to drown the fish uprising before it’s too late?

your BELOVED is being HELD for RANSOM and ONLY YOU can SAVE HER. JOURNEY to the UNDERWORLD and FIGHT through SEAS of MINDLESS THUGS. NOW is the MOMENT OF RECKONING… a LIFE-AND-DEATH BATTLE awaits… IT’S TIME to GET EVEN…

The 6 Pack Promise is the exciting new interactive ab workout for your iPhone. Created by celebrity pro athlete trainer Jeff Cavaliere, the 6 Pack Promise brings you the same exact ab workouts used to keep todays elite professional athletes in game-ready shape while helping them carve out 6 pack abs.

With over 100 ab ripping exercises to choose from, an intense core challenge awaits. Built-in levels of difficulty are able to accommodate everyone from the gym newcomer to the weekend warrior to even the most seasoned of athletes.

AcePlayer can play almost any file format movies and streaming directly on iPhone/iPod/iPad. Just transfer the media files to your ios devices by iTunes File Shareing or over Wi-Fi,then it can be played at once. With built-in downloader and FTP/Samba client, it is not just a local movie player,it is “Movie Player & Downloader & Streaming Media Player” in fact. You can also stream/download media files from most of all UPnP/DLNA media servers to your ios devices. Note: AcePlayer can not work on iPhone 3G and iPod gen1/gen2.

Draw Pad Pro is designed as a beautiful and innovative way to create and manage all your notes, sketches, scribbles, and more. The app takes advantage of new iOS 5 technology to offer an experience unseen in other note-taking or drawing apps.

AN APP THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING Simply put, there is no existing writing app that allows the level of customization that Draw Pad offers. Change everything from the color of your notebooks and the pages they use, to the background and appearance of the app itself. With over 30 different papers, 15 notebook colors, and 10 app themes, you can make things look just the way you want them.